brag vs swaggering

brag

noun
  • A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. 

  • The thing which is boasted of. 

  • The card game three card brag. 

adj
  • Excellent; first-rate. 

verb
  • To boast of something. 

  • To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. 

swaggering

noun
  • Boastful, blustering behaviour. 

adj
  • Boastful, proud, self-confident. 

How often have the words brag and swaggering occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )